Science doesn't have to be
complicated, expensive or use specialized laboratory equipment.
There are great science projects that can be performed using common
household items.

Whether you are a parent or a student trying
to find an idea for a science project, a teacher looking for ideas
for the classroom, or a science enthusiast who enjoys the delight of
experimentation, you'll find what you're looking for in this book.

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Rainbows are caused by another aspect of refraction called dispersion. Light waves of different frequencies (colors) bend different amounts. In most cases, this is not
noticeable, but prisms make use of this to spread out the spectrum so we can see all of the colors. Violet light bends the most, with each color bending a little less up to red, which bends the least.

If light is bent when it passes through glass, is everything we see through a glass window actually in a
different spot?

Light is bent when passing through a transparent material. What happens when you look out a window?
Does the bending of
light mean that nothing is where it appears to be?

Refraction does when you look out a window, but the effects of the bent light
is canceled out. A clear glass has two surfaces that the light passes through - the inside surface of the glass and the outside surface of the glass. When the light passes through the inside surface of the glass the path is bent in one direction and when the light passes back out through the outside surface of the glass it is bent in the other
direction. They cancel each other out and there is no
noticeable effect from refraction.

Fill a glass full with water. Carefully put the glass on the edge of the table so that it is half on and half off, without tipping over! Make sure the sun is shining through the water. Position the white paper on the floor so that the rainbow shows on the paper.

2. Where is it? (clear bowl, pebles or beads, water)

Put the pebbles or beads into the clear bowl and fill it with water. Look through the side of the bowl. What do you notice. Continue looking through the side of the bowl, and try and pick them up. Which ones are easiest to touch? Which ones are harder? See if you can figure out why?

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Reflection is when light is bounced back at an object.
Refraction is when light is bent as it travels through a different
medium, but continues in the same general direction.

2) Is the index of refraction the same for water and ice? If
not, what is the difference?

The index of refraction for water 1.33 and ice is
1.31. The optical density of ice is less than that of water. Light travels through ice faster than it travels through water.

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